by Liz Ivkovich
“What is my posture before God and reality?” I receive the Center for Action and Contemplation’s daily reflections and that was the question just a few weeks ago. I’ve been challenged recently by Andrew for not living up to my contributor role here on the blog. I also felt convicted by the Onion article he posted. I’m pretty good at biting my tongue in the internet, especially because I love my Christian friends who have more orthodox views than I do and I hate the idea of offending them.
Then I read “When Elijah saw how things were he ran for dear life…” And I see myself as Elijah running away from Jezebel in fear, right after seeing God perform a miracle. Maybe in running I’m committing a greater sin than offending some of my friends, I’m biting my tongue in fear instead of speaking words of love.
“What is my posture before God and reality?” The reality of the world is the problem for me with homosexuality and Christianity. It’s a really cut and dry issue in a lot of faith communities; including the Roman Catholic Tradition that I have professed and the Born Again traditions I was raised in. The thing for me in 2009 is that a cut and dry stance on human sexuality based on as Walter Wink says, a culturally (Western Christian sub-culture) developed sexual ethic from Scripture doesn’t reflect the reality of my experience; my experience as a friend to people who are gay. Read the rest of this entry »
